Poll Finds Voters Against Obamacare, as Trust in Democrats Drops
By Peter Roff, Thomas Jefferson Street blog
The summer congressional recess brings with it a bit of good news for the GOP. Pollster Scott Rasmussen reports that, "for the first time in over two years of polling, voters trust Republicans slightly more than Democrats on the handling of the issue of healthcare," 44 percent to 41 percent.
For a party that was considered in many quarters to be irrelevant after the November 2008 election, and given the full court press in which the White House and its allies are currently engaged, the shift is nothing less than amazing.
According to Rasmussen, "Democrats held a four-point lead on the issue last month and a 10-point lead in June. For most of the past two years, more than 50 percent of voters said they trusted Democrats on healthcare. The latest results mark the lowest level of support measured for the party on the now-contentious issue."
Voters also don't like the specifics of the healthcare reform plan Congress is currently working on, also with the backing of the White House. Support for it has fallen "to a new low," with just 42 percent of U.S. voters now in favor of it. That represents a five-point decline in support just in the two weeks since the recess began.
Consider it not just a victory for the folks raising a ruckus at congressional town hall meetings but proof that the complaints being heard do not merely represent "astroturf lobbying" directed by conservative groups from Washington. If it were, it is reasonable to assume the numbers would not have dropped so far, so fast because all the sound and fury being expressed by constituents at their members of Congress would not be reflective of the national mood.
The shift in the numbers Rasmussen documents indicates quite clearly that the more the voters learn about Obamacare, the less they like it.
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OBAMA
Obama has taken the crown as the worst president ever. Worse even than one one-term, hostage abandoning Peanut Farmer.
Dithering on everything - no accomplishents - as the Obama recession grows worse by the day.
The decision to bring terrorists to New York is pure insanity.
We have an administration adrift with one oar in the water.
I can't wait until 2010 elections when we can boot many loony libs OUT THE DOOR!
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Country needs more intelligence
It never ceases to amaze me at just how ignorant and uneducated most of this country happens to be. I know everyone can't be the same, but is it really skewed that far to the dumb side, or is it that they happen to be louder?
I look back on this countries history with both pride and shame. Pride in all that has been accomplished and shame in some of what has transpired to get to those accomplishments. I often wonder... wasn't there a better way? A precedent was set from the time the first ships arrived here and were greeted by smiling natives and it still continues today. Racism, slavery(once physical and now mental), selfishness, greed and murder has kept this country from becoming the true "United" country it could really be. Just a few basic changes in our current laws could be the catalyst for this great unity we think we have currently, and would push everyone to greater prosperity and equality.
To start we need true term limits for 'all' federal, state, and local officials. It should have been and needs to be part of our constitution. Only then will the positions be truly taken by people with an interest in working for the 'people' and not for businesses or personal gains. There's no reason why anyone should sit in the same seat for 40 to 60 years. It boggles my mind at how people continue to vote for such a person. Good or bad... its just too long and they arent there working for you anymore.
Secondly, education in this country needs to be free. From K-12 and 4 years of college. If you can afford to pay for college ...great, but it's quite obvious that more of our 'constituents' need to be better educated. Lastly, healthcare should be free for all. But, before we can tackle that or education we really have to give up on this notion that 'we' in this current time built this country. We are all descendants from immigrants, a lot of whom care here illegally and we were grandfathered in, while the rest were met with very little resistance in becoming an 'american'. Lets not forget that some came here unwillingly due to conflict in their own country. So, we really need to get a grip on reality when it comes to all the many flavors that exist south of our land who have made a home here amongst us. They too, have and are, fleeing sometimes unwillingly to a new place in the hopes that they can be something and have something. If there are 6 million undocumented immigrants here. How do you think they are going away if no one could get rid of the 6 million africans that were brought here unwillingly by force? So, we need to have a lottery.. give them all a number and sign them in one by one. Then we can close up the border and move one with the business of making this country what it should be..... better than how we received it.
As for Obama... polls are only as good as the people phrasing the questions...the people asking the questions and the people responding and the people tabulating the results. think about that
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